Process of printing and scoring and product



1937- v. H. PQLACHEK 2,089,225

PROCESS OF PRINTING AND SCORING AND PRODUCT Filed March 11, 1953 Patented Aug. 10, 1937 PROCESS OF PRINTING AND SCORING AND PRODUCT Victor H. Polachek, Chicago, 111., assignor to Hearst Enterprises, Inc., Chicago, Ill.,- a cor poration of New York Application March 11, 1933, Serial No. 660,431 14 Claims. (Cl. 101-226) This invention relates in general to cutting, stamping or scoring sheet materials, and more particularly to an improved method and apparatus for the manufacture of separable section the cutting or scoring knives are formed as projecting ribs suitably hardened to afford relatively sharp cutting edges.

The foregoing and such other objects and adsheets, and the product thereof, and while for vantages as may appear or be pointed out as 5 convenience, the invention is illustrated and dethis description proceeds are attained in the scribed as employed in producing so-cal1ed jigstructural embodiment of the invention illussaw sheets as part of the special feature sections trated in the accompanying drawing in whichi of newspapers and the like, the invention is Fig re 1 i a s hem t c vi w of the cy inders adaptable to other analogous purposes and thus or rolls of a colored printing press showing the 10 flllds ide fie1d of utility. path of the paper or other fabric web as it is By the employment of the expression jig-saw formed according to the method of this invention. or puzzle herein will be understood that type Figure 2 is an enlarged fragmental sectional of sheeted material which is provided with irreg- View of one of the cutting or scoring elements.

it: ularly shaped scorings which affords sections Figure 3 is an elevational view of the product which are severable but complemental and may of the method herein disclosed and be delivered connected together in sheet form to Figure 4 is an enlargedfragmentary View of be broken up and then later assembled, and an alternative form of the invention shown in which may or may not have one surface provided Figure 3.

with a design, pictorial representation or the like. It Will be understood that the present inven- 20 The principal objects and advantages of this tion is capable in certain of its phases for uses invention reside in the provision of an improved other than that described sp c fi 31nd ll method of cutting or scoring sheeted material trated in the drawing herein, the invention in for the purpose of producing sectionalized areas one of these phases residing particularly in the therein composed of variegated sections which provision of a novel form of the sectionalized 25 are comp1ementa1 and associable but which may Sheet, cflmmonly Called a jig-saw p w re n be readily separated as desired; the provision of the scored and separable sections as delivered an improved process for applying a design, such, for use are not only held together by the thin for example, by printing, to a sheet of material film of material left by the scoring between sec-- and thereupon scoring the sheet into a plurality tions but in addition are held together by a mar 30 of sections which may be separable to form a soginal reinforcement in the nature of a frame. called jig-saw puzzle or the like; the provision One of the princip l DIITDOSGS 0f the nve tion of an improved process of manufacturing a is to provide a method of and means for prosheeted material having sectionalized areas on ducing a sectionalized. sheet of material with a $5 a standard newspaper web printing press, and suitable printed or otherwise applied design to deliver the scored sheet with its scored secthereon which may be conveniently produced for tions integral and of such size and shape as to incorporation in a standard newspaper, and in be readily incorporated in the standard newsorder to facilitate the production of the article paper as a supplemental or special feature secwithin reasonable costs it is desirable to make tion thereof; the provision of an improved meththe article on a standard newspaper web print- 40 0d of printing and/or coloring a sheet and then ing press, though it will be clear to those skilled scoring the same to form a sectionalized area in the art that the article itself may be prohaving an integral border affording a support duced by a method and by apparatus other than for the sections; the provision of an improved that disclosed herein.

e5 apparatus for carrying out the method herein Referring now more particularly to the drawdescribed, together with an improved form of ing, and first to Figure 3 in which the finished cutting plate or cylinder for forming the scorproduct of the method and apparatus of this ings or impression in the sheeted material. invention is disclosed, there is provided a sheet Further objects and advantages of this invenfrom a web of paper or other suitable fabric,

5 tion reside in the provision of an improved form sually of the class of paper employed for newsof sectionalized sheet suitable by the formation print, but of a so-called light cardboard type of the sections thereof to conform in general deabout four or five times the thickness ofnewssign to that known as a jig-saw puzzle wherein print paper. This sheet is shown at 2, and in the sectionalized areas are held. intact when the particular form disclosed contains the printed printing and scoring and folding for insertion design.3 in panels defined by the printed lines in a newspaper by the provision of margins 4, 4 and 5, 5. Thus the printed design of the which are substantially uninterrupted and serve sheet may be divided into the usual sections of as supporting means for the sectionalized areas; pictures such as appear in the conventional comic and the invention further contemplates improvesection of a newspaper. It will be understood ments inga scoring, or. cutting, cylinder wherein that other designs such as reproductions of famous paintings and the like may be substituted. Preferably after the printing or other applied design is on the sheet the latter is scored with a plurality of scorings 6, over an area defined substantially by the interrupted scoring lines I, 8, 9, and ID. This arrangement of scorings is such that it leaves margins ll, 12, I3, and I4 surrounding the substantially longitudinal scored area.

The scorings in the sheet are of sufilcient depth to permit of ready separation of the individual complemental sections [5 formed by the scoring 6. Those of the sections l5 which are adjacent to the scorings 1, 8, 9, and Ill have the additional reinforcement of the unscored portions 5 along the marginal scorings I, 8, 9, and It), thus serving to reinforce the entire so-called jig-saw puzzle area, so that in normal handling of the sheet as it is run through the folding and collecting apparatus of a standard newspaper web printing press the unity of the jig-saw area is not disturbed and when presented to the customer the sections of the jig-saw area are substantially intact.

These sections l5 may be readily separated one from the other by exerting pressure in opposite directions on adjacent sections, these sections separating from each other at the scoring lines 6.

The sheet 2 shown in Figure 3 is a part of a web which is but fragmentarily illustrated in this figure, and this web is perforated in a conventional manner along the dotted lines I! and I8, so that adjacent sheets such as the sheet 2 and the one below it shown at 20. may be separated as they issue from the press for folding and introduction into the rest of the newspaper.

It will thus be seen that the sheet 2 includes a sectionalized area produced by scorings which take the shape produced by either a plate or cylinder cutting die to be hereinafter described, and. that the sectionalized area is bordered by substantially uninterrupted margins which serve to keep the sections held together until separated by the customer.

In Figure 4 an alternative form of the invention is illustrated, the sheets 2b and 20 there shown being in all respects substantially the same as the sheets 2 and 2a shown in Figure 3 with the exception that the scoring lines 6a forming the sections l5a are interrupted to form solid portions l6a as well as the solid portion l6 along the marginal scoring hereinabove described.

For some purposes this form of the invention shown in Figure 4 may be preferred, but with the type of paper which is readily available for use in newspaper work the form of the invention shown in Figure 3 is to be generally preferred; the reason for this preference is that owing to the fragile nature of the paper the unscored portions l6a tend to! tear the rest of the section when an attempt is made to separate the sections. However, for some purposes the form shown in Figure 4 is more desirable.

The method of making the articles shownin Figures 3 and 4 which, for the purpose of incorporation of the article in a newspaper is to be preferred, involves first feeding a web or sheet of newspaper substantially four or five times the thickness of standard news-print paper through a printing press and then through a color printing press. I

If the outline of the figures appearing on the surface of the sheet are to be defined then these outlines are first applied by an initial printing roller with black ink or the like and then the web continued on and supplied to the color rolls.

It is customary to employ four color cylinders but it will be obvious for purposes of this invention that one or any number of color cylinders may be resorted to as desired.

From the color cylinders the web is then fed to the scoring and cutting cylinder or roller, and the various sectionalized areas with their respective borders are then separated from each other either by cutting along the perforations IT and ill or by cutting, and are then collected in the newspaper folding and collecting apparatus.

The diagrammatic illustration in Figure 1 discloses a paper web 20 fed over an idler roller 2| between the color printing cylinder 22 and a plate or pressure cylinder 23, whereupon one surface of the web receives one of the colors of the design.

The web continues on over idler rollers 24 and 25 and then between a second color printing cylinder 26 and its complemental pressure or plate cylinder 21.

Thence the web passes under idler rollers 28 and 29 to the final color applying cylinder 30 and in contact with the complemental pressure or plate cylinder 3|.

From the cylinders 30 and 3| the now completely printed web in an upward flight 32 passes over idler and tension rollers 33 and 34 to the cutting or scoring apparatus.

The cutting and scoring apparatus is usually incorporated in a pair of cylinders already on the printing press and it is not necessary to reconstruct the press or to apply any additional cylinders thereto for the purpose of this invention.

The cutting cylinder is indicated at 35 and a so-called impression cylinder at 36 between which cylinders the flight 32 of the web of paper is adapted to pass, the tension of the two cylinders 35 and 36 with respect to the sheet being regulated for controlling the depth of cut or score made in the sheet.

Where there are two areas to be scored it is convenient to apply the cutting or scoring plate in two separate sections indicated at 31 and 38 to the outer surface of the cylinder 35. These cutting or scoring plates are made to the conventional contour of the printing cylinders of a standard web newspaper printing press and are secured in position in the conventional way. For this reason no detailed construction of the cylinders themselves is shown.

The impression cylinder 36 is provided with an external lining 39 secured in the conventional way and composed of a relatively soft metal, such, for example, as sheet Zinc or the like which serves to receive an impression of the knives of the cutting cylinder and thus facilitate the provision of a cutting background for the cutting knives of the cutting cylinder 35. Furthermore, this provides a surface which will not tend. to dull the cutting edges of the cutting or scoring cylinder.

The scoring or cutting blades of the cutting cylinder 35 may be applied in any way desired but for my purposes I prefer to employ the conventional cylinder of the printing press to which semi-cylindrical sections of cutting plates 31 and 38 are applied.

In Figure 2 a portion of one of the cutting plates is shown. It will be understood that for some purposes the plate may be a flat plate and employed in a press other than a cylinder press if desired. This plate includes a metal backing 4| of a substantially rigid material such, for example, as lead or zinc of the desired thickness, the longitudinal edges being beveled off as indicated at 42 in order to clampingly retain the same on the cutting cylinder in the same manner as the usual printing plates are retained in conventional practice.

The plate 4| has aifixed to it a design reproduced in electrotype or stereotype to form the plate 43 which latter is provided with one or more ridges M conforming to the design to be out.

After the electrotype plate 43 is afiixed to the carrier plate 4!, the whole external surface of the plate 43 is electroplated with a steel lining 45, so that the cutting edges 46 of the ridges become hardened.

It will be understood that the relative thicknesses of the plating shown in Figure 2 are exaggerated in order to make the illustration clear.

From the foregoing it will be observed that the cutting plates which are in sections as described are then applied to the cutting cylinder and as they rotate the knife edges 46 provided by the steel plating impinge upon the paper as it passes between the two rolls 35 and 36 and these edges strike into the paper a suflicient distance to weaken the same at portions to form scorings therein. The depth of the scoring in each instance can be regulated by the conventional adjusting means carried on the press for controlling the relative position of the rollers 35 and 36.

After the paper web has passed between the rollers 35 and 38, it is then ready to be cut into sections and may be drawn over idler rollers 41 to the folding, cutting and collecting apparatus of the newspaper press for insertion into the body of the newspaper.

Having thus described my invention and illustrated its use, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In the manufacture of. a seotionalized sheeted material, the steps which include applying a design to a flexible sheeted material, then scoring said sheeted material to form severable flexible connected sections of predetermined contour, and leaving a margin of said flexible sheeted material free of scoring to form a support for said flexible sections.

2. In the manufacture of a seotionalized sheeted material, the steps which include applying a design to a flexible sheeted material, then scoring said sheeted material to form severable flexible connected sections of predetermined contour, and leaving a margin of said sheeted material free of scoring to form a support for said flexible sections, the sections adjacent to said margin being connect-ed thereto by unscored links.

3. In the manufacture of seotionalized flexible sheeted material, the step of applying scorings to a portion of the sheet to form severable flexible connected sections, leaving free of scoring a marginal portion forming a support for the flexible sections.

4. In the manufacture of a seotionalized flexible sheeted material, the step of applying scorings to a portion of the sheet to form severable flexible connected sections, leaving free of scoring a marginal portion forming a support for the flexible sections and providing interrupted scoring for attaching the marginal portion to the adjacent sections.

5. In the manufacture of a flexible sectionalized sheeted material, the steps which include feeding a flexible web substantially continuously, applying a design to said web, and then scoring the web in motion to form a plurality of severable sections but retaining certain portions intact so that complete separation does not occur in the process of scoring.

6. In the manufacture of a seotionalized sheeted mamrial, the steps which include feeding a flexible web substantially continuously, applying a design to said web, and then scoring the web in motion to form a plurality of severable but unsevered sections leaving a margin of the web free of scoring to form supporting means for said sections so as to produce a substantially unitary group of severable sections.

'7. As a new article of manufacture, a flexible sheet having a plurality of complemental severable connected sections enclosed by a flexible marginal portion which is substantially continuous and forms a carrier for said sections, said sections being partially severed from each other and said marginal portion by interrupted series of scorings.

8. In the process of printing and severing sheet material for forming a flexible puzzle, the steps of supplying a moving fabric web to a printing roll for applying a printed design thereto, then scoring the flexible sheet with a predetermined puzzle design to form a plurality of flexible separable sections, but leaving the same unsevered and leaving a margin of the sheet unscored to form a frame for supporting the scored flexible sections in unsevered form.

9. In a puzzle, a flexible sheet having its sur face scored with a plurality of irregular lines to form a group of. readily severable flexible connected sections, a margin of said sheet being intact and partially severed from adjacent flexible sections by interrupted scoring so as to form a readily severable support for the entire group of flexible sections until severed for use.

10. In the manufacture of a seotionalized sheeted material, the steps which include feeding a flexible web substantially continuously, applying a design to said web, and then scoring the web in motion to form a plurality of sections partially severed from each other and leaving a margin of web free of scoring to form a supporting means for said sections.

11. As a new article of. manufacture, a flexible sheet having a design printed thereon and scored upon one face thereof to form a plurality of partially severed sections which are readily severable, a continuous margin of said sheet being left unscored.

12. As a new article of manufacture, a flexible sheet scored on one face thereof to form a plurality of complemental readily severable sections enclosed by a continuous unscored marginal portion, said sections being retained to each other and to said margin by the unsevered increment of said sheet.

13. A picture puzzle comprising a flexible sheet 'of material having one surface marked by scorings to form a plurality of partially severed and readily severable complemental portions retained each to the other by the unsevered increment of. said sheet.

14. A picture puzzle comprising a flexible sheet of material having one surface marked by scorings to form a plurality of partially severed and readily severable complemental portions retained each to the other by the unsevered increment of each sheet, said sheet having unscored marginal portions.

VICTOR H. POLACHEK. 

